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inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola : . : “ : ‘ & . “ ASKING directiohs of the man in “the street in Indianapolis won't get you far.~ By the way, do you know where the Governor's mansion is? We'll talk more about that later and even locate Mr. Schricker’s abode exactly. The burn-

ing question of the moment: Can a lost seul gét directions in our fair city?

plant, 6000 E, 21st St, is a rather popular place for a gkilled workman to seek a job, I asked .a man on ‘the Circle how to get there by bus, After a moment of headscratching, the man. said he was “awful sorry” but he didn't know. He's passed it many times, knows where it is, doggone it, “but I can't tell you how to get there.” +. On Ohlo St, a man in a wool jacket, was on the ball. He asked if I was going out there to get a job. He was im a couple of days. “Good place to work,” he added. & & >

“GO ONE block north to New York St. and take a 21st and Arlington bus. Takes you right there. Good luck.” With all the traffic that flows to the Speedway, I tried an easy question, I thought. A young man said the Speedway bus could be caught on the Circle. Wrong. The second try was correcty Ohio and Meridian Sts. is a good spot to board a Speedway bus on its return trip. Three attempts at finding out where to get the College Ave. street car failed. Two answers were plain “I don't know.” The third was more emphatic. The man appeared angry with himself as he blurted, “I'll be ———— if I know.” Two men didn't know where to get a Beech Grove bus. American Legion National Headquarters was easy. The directions were precice and the four answers were given quickly. THE FUN began when I asked where the Governor's mansion was. Believe me, the question wasn't intended to be the piece de resistance, It happened to work out that way. On E. Market 8t., an intelligent-looking fel-

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Nov. 3—Thirty years ago I left the farm. I've never yet become citified enough for one metropolitan habit—the manicure. 1 apologize to you manicurists. You're lovely. I'd like to know you better, But my mitts have milked cows, slapped hogs, pitchforked hay and other barnvard commodities. Manicures always seemed “sissy” and too luxurious. Bob Feller, the great Cleveland pitcher, also an ex-farm. boy, tells me he always felt the same way-—that it was “pouring money down a rat hole.” That prejudice stuck--until the other day. I got manicured at the Waldorf I' needed a haircut. Due to the barbers’ strike, I busted into the Waldorf shop —which wasn't on strike. The clippers were half way up my neck when I found the shop isn't in the union—oh, what 1 had gotten myself into o& “o> oe SHUDDERING about the barbers’ union. 1 decided now was my time for the adventure. After all, for years now I'd been eating with my knuckles in polite company because I'm of the \ nervous, tear-'em-off school. “l better have a nail job lessly. “Certainly, sir”"—and over came Jeanne. Remember, this is the shop where the assistant manager goes upstairs to haircut Gen. MacArthur, where evervbody from Jim Farley to Frank Costello may drop in. : “You may have a little trouble with those ™ I sald nervously to Jeanne. Jeanne ignored me. Even her hands were impersonal. There's nothing so awful as to have a girl holding your hand while she doesn't even know you're there ! For Eddie, the shoeshine boy, and the barber too, Jeanne had endearments. but for me, nothing, and I was aching to get acquainted.

RELAX,

too,” 1 said, care-

IF YOU Jeanne Said. > Oh, the chill! Relax' With her jamming my hands down into a bow! sawing at them with a file, plucking at them with tweezers and not even king me besides. “Thankyou,” Jeanne and the barber said. almost simultaneously was over. | sneaked a look at my nails and they were well — lovely. ® “Guess you had a hard time,” I said to Jeanne “Don’t chew ‘em any more.” she commanded. Cut to the quick, but feeling gay now that I'd managed to achieve what millions of city slickers do automatically. I strode out on Park Ave. hold.ing m@ shining nails on my lapels so everybody'd see Nobody noticed. Not even the BW when I saw her later. I'm writing this now because I wanted SOMEBODY to know,

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL . ... Jovce Mathews and Rilly Rose will be married after Eleanor Holm’s divorce B'wayites giddy over Billy. You'll soon be hearing of 'em around together again. > Jimmy Durante hopes Margaret Truman'll put on a false Durante schnozz for their TV show but she says no. ... The Dept. of Internal Rev.

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Americana ’ By Robert €C. Ruark

NEW YORK. Nov, 3—You will please pardon a muted mumble, since I am no student of economlex, but only a working stiff, but a curious workIng stif® withal, and IT am most uhsure of my ground here. All T know about the new tax is that they are going to nip a larger chunk out of my salary. And that what I was buying for what we need around the house is now going to cost more, because they just boosted the price of ceilings on consumer goods. This is great and gay for the people, who sell the stuff, and make the stuff, but {it causes no rejoicing among people like me. We are still making/the same dough. Mr, Truman has his tax-ex-empt 50 grand to soak up the fresh bite on earned income, but lovely little us ain't got no tax-exempt slush fund to stick away in the bank. What lovely little us has got is more taxes, and higher costs, and the same old heat-up income, This boils low in the pot. It means we have less money to pay more, unless we can find a friend in. the income-tax-family and bribe him to ease us off the book. oe & o THE PEOPLE who advocate the higher taxes to slash the wrist of inflation, by some curious coincidence, always seem to have a fairish egg of ancient, tax-free money, stuck away in the China teacup. Even so, 1 will buy heavy taxation as a curb to runaway Inflation, if they will leave the status quo-ing long enough to make a mite of difference. +2 } But how you can regulate an economy by shoving a prohibitive tax on income, and then immediately raising the price of what you buy on a reduced pay check leaves me mired down in bewilderment. It just isn't fair. More to pay more makes sense. less to pay less makes sense, But less to pay more is sheer idiocy. GS bb -

SOME OF the authorized increases in the cost of essentials are even more than the cost of absorbing the tax boosts. This says to me that the tax hike is nullified, and even is used as a gimmick to help the manufacturers and retailers to the extreme hurt of the consumer. The boys who rule my destiny have not flipped in a paybounce to even me up with the government, as your mas-

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Some of Us Don’t Know Our Town

low became flustered for a moment and began to say, “It's around the Circle there . . . no, that's the Statehouse, Hummmph—I guess I can't tell you the exact place. It's in the city.”

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His Honor, the Mayor, a Showman

be surprised to receive such an answer. Do have so many points of interest here that the Governor's mansion is on the shack list? “Can you tell me where the Governor's mansion is, sir?” - “Yeh, it's on N. Pennsylvania, I believe. It's about in the 40 hundred block. Quite a ways from here.” 'No kidding. N “>

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“AN ELDERLY gentleman window-shopping gave me a gruff, curt, “Naw.” When I went away, I thought what a bad impression one man can give to the city. Obviously he had never been in a.strange place, completely bewildered, in need of help or he wouldn't have been 80 unpleasant. The experience with this man brings home vividly some of the cutting remarks you hear about Indianapolis. There is no excuse for being uncivil. Fortunately, his answer was overheard by a woman. She told me the Govermor's mansion was between 42d and 46th Sts. on N. Meridian. “You can't miss it. There's a big gold fence out in front,” she added Another man said the mansion was “quite a way up N, Meridian.” That was as explicit as he volunteered to be. Gov. Henry F. Schri¢cker's mansion is located at 4343 N. Meridian St. You can’t miss it If you look for the gold fence.

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ON ILLINOIS and New York Sts, I asked where the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was The directions were correct. Surprised? Perhaps the city should put up signs (we're loaded now but a few more certainly couldn't hurt much) telling those who seek information to ask a policeman or an employee 6f the Indianapolis Railways. Fm happy about one thing. When a person didn’t know he said so. They didn’t send you off Your course. There's always something to be thankful for in this world.

Farm Boy Discovers Manicure Not “Sissy’

fears enormous evasion attempts this year, due to the scandals.

PEEPHOLE PEOPLE: A major TV show canceled a zany “Red Channels” comic—very well known--at the last minute . Joe DiMaggio's about due back in LA. . .. Midnitems: Dan Topping and Alice Lawson; also Liz Taylor and Pat DiCicco. ... The Frank & Ava wedding's due at Be Levy's, Phillv home. But it may be switched due to publicity. . Wendy Bartlett's one of the Gilded Cage's beauties, ow o- o» 4 B'WAY BULLETINS: The dock strike'll spread to Montreal. Bishop Sheen was at the Colony with Atty. Sol & Mrs. Rosenblatt. Mrs. "R. decorated the Bishop's home at Yonkers. . . . Clothing tvcoon Al Turner celebrated his 60th birthday at the Colony. When somebody wished him “Many happy returns,” Gentleman Georgie SoloNever say ‘returns’ to a

Wendy Bartleit taire groaned, “Please clothing manufacturer.”

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» GOOD RUMOR MAN: Mary Pickford, who's breaking up “Pickfair.” is trying to buy a big NY TV station. . . . Stripteaser Lili St. Cyr and husband. Armando Cocchi have split. . «+ Sen. Taft will be the Saints and Sinners’ Fall Guy in January. New thing to bet on: marriage. Jackie Coogan won a bundle betting Barbara Payton would wind up with Franchot. . . . Artist Charles Addams has been getting acquainted with actress Rosemary Pettit's parents just in case. <> o> < B'WAY BULLETINS: Bookmaking opened up as fast as expected due to the vigilance of Chief Inspector Kennedy, the honest cop. . . Poor Nicky Hilton. Wanted in the Plaza, one of his hotels, but had to stay in another (the Waldorf}:. . . . Henry Armstrong. now a Los Angeles minister, wants Jersey -Joe Walcott to enter the

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pulpit. Martha Stewart's new playmate is Jackie Hurdels, the TV producer. oD . TODAY'S DIALOG: ‘My wife says she'll leave me if I don't quit drinking’ — How sad! — “Yeah, I'll miss her.” oo <@ &

TOOTS SHOR told Jackie Gleason, "My wife's stuck on me.” Replied Gleason. “The only reason anybody'd be stuck on you is that you're stickv.” EARL'S PEARLS . .. A double-ring ceremony says Georgia Gibbs, i= where he puts one on her finger, and she puts one through his nose.

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “You'll never stay

flat if you flatter" Ray Malone. He who watches the clock.” recalls Lee

Heather Kurtz of Atlantic City, “winds up as one of the hands” . . . That's Earl, brother.

Taxpayers Feel That Old Bite Again

ters have not squared you off with the new jump in the struggle for existence. A great many of us punchy citizens are not tied to a cost-of-living clause that immediately recompenses us for another jah in the high prices of keeping alive. I expect we are a majority in the nation. They can bang us silly with the taxes, and heat our brains out on new government adjustments in what we buy, but nobody stops at the desk to say: “Hi, Pete, you'll find another doublesaw in vour check to kéep vou solvent in the race to avoid starvation,” * + A MAN who knows his economic business once told me that you can't control a part of anything; that you must control it all or you merely create vast thieving opportunities for the spoilers. My brain is baffled but the statement still sticks. And more taxes to provide less money for more people to pay higher prices with less income does not add up to right, It adds up to fierce foolishness, I will take my taxes and keep my big mouth clammed {if everybody else takes his whipping, too. But if the boys in Washington. keep adjusting prices to compensate for the tax increases, then I will holler. The price ddjustment nullifiess the effort to hold dawn inflation on one hand, and drives the static wage earner into double desperation on the other, }

Dishing the Dirt

By Marguerite Smith

Q—1Is it too late to plant tulips? some pointers. Carmel. A—No, you've plenty of tim to plant tulips. Main points for success, be sure to give them plant food and a location where bulbs won't stand in water after heavy rains, Bone meal is good soll enricher for bulb beds. Mix it {n at root Use three to five pounds to a hundred Square feet. Deep planting of bulbs (10 to 12 inches) discourages division of bulbs and production of smaller flowers so they need lest frequent resetting. But this is advisably only

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Chit Chat . . . Grocer James Rumpler and Mr. Lemon.

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ

Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Nov: 3 —If Tom Lemon isn't reelected Mayor of Bloomington, the people here are

convinced he can continue his career in Hoilvwood or on television writing, acting, producing

For the young (37) Mayor has abar the conventio

ioned

hustlir rdoned most

but old fash-

election tactics in fas ew, ¢ big-city campaigning

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He is star of his dwn publisher of a slick photo magazine and producer of zs campaign stunts previously } to this bustling commu Indiana Univer

television show

home of

By contrast, his Republican opponent. Emmett (Pop) Kelly.

retired restaurant owner, shies ‘away from radio and television appear: and relies instead on small gatherings, newspaper ads and political rallies. Bruce Temple, managing edi-

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tar of RBloomington'’s Daily Herald - Telephone, feels the election "Tuesday will provide a

good test of the value of newsvers radio and

campaigns

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BUT POLITICIANS of both parties believe it will be more of a test between the tried and tested, old-fashioned political campaigning of Pop Kelly, and

the slick, modern politicking of Tom Lemon. Mr. Lemon's television program is not one of the regular political shows viewers have

come tp regard as a ‘necessary evil” along with dull commercials and re-released horse op-

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1951

fancy of movies. It is a sparkling show. loaded with vital concerning Bloomington. Called Bloomington On Trial, the show is patterned after another TV program, Famous Jury Trials. Usually, Tom Lemon is the defendant, Indiana University tudents play the part of prosedefense attorney, judge and witnesses The actors the fa

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HERE'S ONE scene from a recent ‘court irama about

us problems—a

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O water short“Def Attorney: Mr. Lem on have | ever claimed t

this water supply problem could

be solved for nothing?

Defendant Lemon: Never. We have only claimed that it

would not be necessary to raise taxes to do it.

Defense A

4 you ng so far in the pub-

\ttorney: see an : lished statement of vour opponent to prove otherwise? Defendant Lemon: No, I do not Defense Attorney: Would vou -say that your opponent is dodging the issue. Prosecutor: . Objection Honor. The attorney for defense is accusing my witness of lving. He has impugned the sincerity of the prosecution wit-

Your

the

ness, Mr. Kelly. “Defense «. Attorney: Your Honor, I submit that I have

done nothing but quote the witness’ own words and pointed out '

LOCAL BOMBARDIER CHECKS CARGO—Capt. Robert M, Emminger, bombardier-navigator, 585 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, inspects a bomb-bay load of bombs in a B-26. He_has flown over Kbrea on 18 bombing missions with the 3d Bombardment Wing

of the 5th Air Force.

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Republican-. . . Pop Kelly in

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that he made sweeping statements without regard to the issue.’

n ” sz SOMETIMES Mavor Lemon's television tricks and dramatics fall short of their goal. Like the time he cut up a giant size pie (lemon. naturally) to show the

television audience how their tax dollar is divided. Republicans , gleefully noted

that after slicing the pie, Mavor Lemon furtively looked around the and quickly licked some of the pie off his fingers. Look,” the Republicans shouted, “how the tax money sticks to his fingers.’ Mayor Lemon is the first Democrat to be elected Mavor of Bloomington in 25 years. Four years ago, he campaigned on a reform ticket to “kick the rascals out.” It was a whirlwind campaign with university students, professors, city workers and merchants helping Tom Lemon into office The big issue at the time was gambling and graft,

studio

2 x 5 PERHAPS the biggest campaign project Mr. Lemon and his associates have undertasen

is ‘the slick, photo magazine which is sent without charge to every home. in Bloomington. Ahput 7500 magazines are printed and distributed. There are eye-catching pictures and stories about the city's Grade “A” milk situation, the new method of grading restaurants, parks, se ho ol board fire® department, * sewage, police department, gambling and aviation Republicans say magazine and other campaign activities of Mayor Lemon cost “lots of money” and they often wonder in public “where is all the money coming from?" Mayor Lemon savs “from the people, little people.” He savs he will make a full accounting after the election. As a matter of fact, Mayor Lemon is getting no little assistance from university students and professors. Professors. have contributed money and ideas to the campaign. : 5 ~ =

ONE OF the City Council-

the

Jen up for election on the

Democratic ticket .is Presley

Sikes, professor of government.

He was originally appointed to the post to fill a vacancy, -

rare radio talk

Full of campaign stunts, Mayor Lemon gives gimmicks

and gifts to everybody at polit--

ical rallies. For the children, he has a combination pencil and Yo-Yo, with which an unusually gifted child could do his homework and play the Yo-Yo at the same time. For adults, he has cigarets, a Turkish blend—carried inside a package with the name Lemon on the outside.

At one time, Mavor lemon used his name in all sorts of political slogans. His favorite was “Let Lemon Make Lemonade’ For You." This however, has been : Junked ever since Republican

supporters of Pop Kelly shouting No more lemonade, we

Pop.”

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and

Republican Kelly is being ex

tensively covered by the town's

two newspapers, the Daily Her-

ald Telephone and the weekly Star Courier. . Y

The Star Courier is open supporting. Mayor Lemon The Herald Telephone itself an under attack by for being partisan GOP, Both newspapers duct polis, »

which calls

indeper nt paper, is Mavor Lemon toward the

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In one issue of the daily last week, Mr. Kelly was leading the paper's poll. In the same issue, but on the inside, the paper carried an advertisement which proclaimed that the weekly’s poll had Mayor Lemon out front.

Mayor Lemon says the reason he has to campaign so vigor. ously for the $5700-a-year post is because Republicans hold 2 normal 2200-vote majority in the city out of a total 13.000 votes. He likes politics and wants to remain Mayor. Democrats say ‘the big issue in “the election is “to Keep Lemon in office.” Republicans, confronted with the same guestion, say the big issue is to “get Lemon out.” Politicians of both parties pris vately say the other issues waterworks: gambling, sanitation and sewage—are gimed at the "independents. : As the campaign winds upg Mayor Lemon is organizing squads of baly - sitters to sit home with the kids while Mom and Pop go out to vote, 3 Politicians the state over have their eyes glued on Blooms ington. And if Mayor Lemon's zany campaign tactics pay off, a new political era, full of mod+ ern techniques, will have opened for future candidates in Indiana.